Barbra Banda arrived at WAFCON 2026 as the second most expensive player in women's football history. She has scored four goals in one match. The commercial profile of African women's football's most valuable player — and what her WAFCON performance does to that value.
Channel 4. DAZN. Ziggo. beIN Sports. CAF TV on YouTube. WAFCON 2026 is the most globally distributed women's football tournament Africa has ever produced. The broadcast architecture behind the deal — and what it means for the commercial future of African women's football.
Group A is settled at the top. Group D is the most balanced of the tournament. Group B goes to tonight. Group C waits for Nigeria versus Zambia tomorrow. The WAFCON 2026 group stage standings, patterns and quarter-final picture at the halfway point.
FIFA has crowned the goal of the 2026 World Cup, and it belongs to Cape Verde. Sidny Lopes Cabral's extra time strike against Argentina beat out entries from Messi and Mbappe to win the public vote. The full story behind the goal and what the award means for African football.
Idrissa Gana Gueye's second spell at Everton is over. The Senegal international leaves Merseyside after 236 appearances and two Player of the Season honours, with Saudi Arabia reportedly his next stop. The story of a career that outlasted every prediction.
Morocco's World Cup quarter final run just paid off for one of its own. Issa Diop completes a permanent move from Fulham to newly promoted Ipswich Town on a four year deal. The numbers, the timeline, and what it means for Morocco's Premier League pipeline.
Cape Verde's World Cup goalkeeper is Chile-bound. Vozinha completes an 18-month move to Colo Colo, turning a fairytale tournament run into a new continental chapter. The story behind football's most unlikely transfer of the summer.
The AFCON 2025 title has no confirmed owner. Senegal won it on the pitch. CAF gave it to Morocco on paper. CAS has not ruled. The numbers behind African football's most complicated legal dispute.
Motsepe spoke in Johannesburg yesterday. He was proud, he was careful, and on the one question African football most needs answered — who won AFCON 2025 — he had nothing new to say. The full report.
Vozinha is 40 years old, used to be an electrician, and has just been named in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Team of the Tournament. He is the only African in the XI. He is also the reason Spain never scored against Cape Verde. The full story.
WAFCON 2026 opens in four days. Morocco face Kenya on Sunday night in Rabat. Algeria and Senegal go first that afternoon. The full breakdown of Group A — the host's group, the pressure group, and the one East Africa is watching most closely.
Motsepe speaks today in Johannesburg. A record 10 African teams at the World Cup. Nine into the knockouts. Zero semi-finalists. What CAF says next matters. The full preview of Wednesday's press conference.
Ten nations. Nine into the knockouts. Zero semi-finalists. One final shaped entirely by what African sides did first. The complete numbers behind Africa's 2026 World Cup.
WAFCON 2026 kicks off Saturday in Morocco. Nigeria open against Malawi on July 28, Morocco carry last year's wound into a third straight home tournament, and the world's attention is shifting south. Five days after the World Cup ends, Africa's own begins.
Spain are world champions. Ferran Torres settled it in extra time. Africa's fingerprints are all over this tournament — the final accounting of what the continent built, lost, and leaves with. The full verdict.
At 40, Vozinha proves age is just a number when talent and mentality align. A move to Colo Colo would be a perfect next chapter—bringing experience, leadership, and massive fan appeal to the Chilean club.
